Bitvavo vs KuCoin.

Bitvavo publishes 0.15% maker / 0.25% taker on its base tier; KuCoin publishes 0.10% maker / 0.10% taker on its base tier. On the brochure, KuCoin looks cheaper. But the published fee is only one part of what a trade costs: the other part is the spread your order actually crosses in the book — and that number exists nowhere on a fee page. That is why this page shows a measured trade above, not a fee table: fee plus live order-book spread, plus the withdrawal where the exchange publishes one, timestamped.

Cost is one axis; getting your money out is the other — the Reliability Score above, dated to the day it was last written, is a sourced record of withdrawal reliability, proof-of-reserves, regulatory standing and security history. The score never moves the cost ranking; it stands beside it, because the cheapest fill and the safest custodian are not always the same exchange.

Numbers on this page refresh continuously (each carries its measurement time), the ranking is by what you actually receive, and where a link earns us a disclosed referral commission it is labelled — the commission never influences any number. For your own trade size and asset, the live comparison recomputes everything in real time.